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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4738844

Just finished the first book ... thought I'd post some quick thoughts and hopefully get some fun discussion

The TV adaptation

Generally, my feeling of reading the book after seeing season 1 of the show is that, though it's been a while since I saw season 1, it felt like a much better adaptation than I would have guessed given its negative reception. Yes there were changes, especially at the end, but generally it was a pretty faithful adaptation of the story whereas I got the impression that it was doing huge injustices to the main story. As for the ending in the book, well, I'm not sure that could have worked on TV, and honestly, I did not enjoy the ending of the book and probably prefer that of the TV show. Season 1 had clumsiness and seemed to stumble in its writing and direction and fail to capture the tension of the story ... but in the end, to me, much of that seems to have been first-season-jitters and the